House
Merovingian dynasty
Frankish aristocratic family that ruled from the 5th century to 751
- Also called Merovingian, Merovingian Franks, Mæringas
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 16
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
4 children in the house
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Chlodomer c. 495 CE – 524 CE -
Childebert I c. 497 CE – 558 CE -
Clothar I 498 CE – 561 CE 3 children in the house
- Clotilde c. 500 CE – 531 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Clovis Ic. 466 CE – 27 November 511 CE · first king of the Franks (c. 466-511) - Chlodomerc. 495 CE – 21 June 524 CE · Child of Clovis I
- Childebert Ic. 497 CE – 23 December 558 CE · Child of Clovis I
- Clothar I498 CE – 29 November 561 CE · Child of Clovis I
- Clotildec. 500 CE – 531 CE · Child of Clovis I
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Chram6th century CE – December 560 CE · Child of Clothar I -
Radegund518 CE – 13 August 587 CE · Frankish queen consort -
Chilperic Ibetween 525 and 534 CE – 27 September 584 CE · Child of Clothar I -
Guntramc. 532 CE – 28 March 593 CE · Child of Clothar I -
Bertha of Kentc. 565 CE – c. 612 CE · 6th century queen consort of Kent -
Ingundc. 567 CE – c. 585 CE · 567-585 -
Rigunthc. 569 CE – after 589 CE · Child of Chilperic I -
Chlothar II584 CE – 18 October 629 CE · Child of Chilperic I -
Sigebert III630 CE – 1 February 656 CE · King of Austrasia -
Theuderic IIIthe 650s CE – 691 CE · King of the Franks -
Dagobert II652 CE – 23 December 679 CE · Child of Sigebert III
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
- 11 holders
- 1 overlap
- 2 gaps
- 6 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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481 CE – 27 November 511 CE Clovis I first king of the Franks (c. 466-511) -
Gap about 162 years before the next in this house
673 CE Theuderic III King of the Franks -
Gap about 2 years before the next in this house
675 CE – 679 CE Theuderic III King of the Franks -
Overlap held at the same time as Theuderic III
676 CE – 23 December 679 CE Dagobert II Frankish king - 679 CE – 691 CE Theuderic III King of the Franks
No dates recorded 6
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Dates unrecorded Childebert I Frankish King -
Dates unrecorded Clothar I king of Franks (511-561) -
Dates unrecorded Chilperic I king of Neustria from 561 to 584 (537-584) -
Dates unrecorded Chlothar II King of Neustria -
Dates unrecorded Guntram king of Burgundy from 561 to 592 -
Dates unrecorded Sigebert III King of Austrasia
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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